Does Mainstream Media DESERVE Its Extinction-Level Event?

New Yorker bombshell avoids the hard questions

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All over the world, terrible things are happening. And mainstream media are doing an equally terrible job of reporting on them. At False Flag Weekly News, co-hosts like E. Michael Jones join me every week to report on the terrible reporting on the terrible things.

Humanity may be facing a whole series of potential extinction-level events. The same AI that is about to annihilate journalism, according to Clare Malone’s New Yorker story on impending media extinction, also poses a risk of human extinction. The most pro-AI and AI-knowledgable people on the planet say so.

Other technologies, including genetic engineering, artificial life, brain-computer interfaces, smart dust, drone swarms, geoengineering, and who-knows-what-else have the potential to go haywire and radically degrade if not end human life on Earth.

This swarm of dangerous technologies is zeroing in on us at a moment of geopolitical instability. The US empire, the #1 global power since World War II, is frantically lashing out in self-destructive attempts to enforce its crumbling “rules-based order” (meaning “we make up the rules as we go along”).

As its economic and military power recede, the Empire scrambles to make up the deficit with propaganda power, by having its lapdog media lie ever-more-outrageously. For two years, the media kept telling us that Putin was dying and Russia’s economy was on the verge of collapse and Zelensky was winning the war. Today, the truth has become too obvious to deny: Putin, and Russia, are doing fine—and winning.

The same lying media is lying even more outrageously about events in Occupied Palestine. Only Jewish-dominated Western media power allows the Zionist genocidaires to continue their butchery despite near-unanimous global opposition.

At such a dangerously unstable moment, it would be nice to have an accurate and comprehensive understand of events in their historical contexts. Unfortunately the media are not providing the kind of reporting that would enable such understanding.

Claire Malone’s New Yorker article “Is the Media Prepared for an Extinction-Level Event?” ignores the elephant in the room: declining trust in media. Beginning during the early 2000s, when significant numbers of people began to figure out that 9/11 was a false flag, the collapse of trust in media has been ongoing.

The Death of Advertising

Malone’s “extinction-level event” is the demise of advertising. American news media have always been financed by advertisers. But at least since Craigslist replaced classified ads, that income has been declining. The hoped-for solution, digital advertising, has been drying up in recent years, as tech companies figure out how to siphon off funds that used to go to news companies. Google and other aggregators, increasingly powered by AI, are now able to steal news producers’ content and monetize it. Generating clicks, and getting paid for them, ain’t what it used to be.

The death of advertiser-based journalism is driving the implosion of traditional journalism jobs.

Among the rank and file, there’s not a clear sense of what the next era of media might actually look like, besides having fewer journalists. “This shit is all dying,” the writer Jack Crosbie posted on his Substack in January. “There is like one place you can work right now with any kind of job security and it is The New York Times and that’s only because they have a shitload of recipes on a nicely coded little cooking app that you can subscribe to and also because your parents are hooked on Wordle.”

Crosbie thinks the demise of corporate journalism is terrible, even though he’s doing fine, economically, on Substack. What’s so terrible about Substack? It “helps run some Nazi and Nazi-adjacent blogs,” he says. I know what a Nazi-adjacent country is: Moldova, Romania, Hungary, Slovenia, Slovakia, Poland, and Belarus. But what is a “Nazi-adjacent” blog? The next one over from Zelensky’s?

Crosbie hates free-speech media because of the “dumbasses posting Houthi rebel fancams because they think they’re brave anticolonial forces.” It seems Crosbie is such a dumbass he doesn’t even know that the Houthis are brave anticolonial forces. That’s about as dumb as an ass can get. What does he think the Houthis are, cowardly pro-colonial forces?

Crosbie’s gratuitous swipe at Yemen’s Ansurallah government, one of only two on Earth taking direct action to stop the #GazaGenocide, inadvertently reveals who he thinks should monopolize the media, and our minds. No wonder he has been so comfortable writing for mainstream outlets all these years.

Crosbie also worries that pro-organic-lifestyle women, given the right to post their views on the internet, will convince people to avoid GMOs. And that’s just the beginning. “If things don’t change,” Crosbie warns, “this will get so much worse. In 20 years you truly will not be able to believe anything that you see or hear online—which will be the only place you see or hear things.”

In Crosbie’s world, the only things worthy of belief are what mainstream media tell you to believe. Ergo, once mainstream media go extinct, you won’t be able to believe anything. That’s pretty much what scribal monopolists thought about the rise of the printing press.

I wonder if Crosbie’s faith in the reliability of mainstream media would survive an encounter with the best available “Everything You Know Is Wrong” compendium on the internet: Ron Unz’s American Pravda series.

Even the circa-1970 Firesign Theatre couldn’t have predicted that by the early 2020s The New York Times would be reporting on leaked documents on a top-secret government program to “‘arrange for access to data/reports/materials from crash retrievals of A.A.V.’s,’ or advanced aerospace vehicles.”

Whatever you think of UFOs and the Gray Lady’s late-developing interest in them, the fact is that just because the Times reports something—like its handful of lurid WWII-era page 10 one-paragraph stories claiming the Nazis were gassing millions of Jews—doesn’t mean it’s true.

Jack Crosbie yearns for the bygone mythical days of yore when mainstream media were a reasonable arbiter of truth. The problem is, that’s all a pipe dream. The picture of the world we’ve inherited from mainstream sources is grotesquely, maddeningly wrong: wrong in its broad outlines, and wrong in many of its most important details. If you see the world the way corporate media wants you to see it, you’re living in a fantasy.

The extinction-level event that eliminates mainstream media will free us to discover how badly we’ve been lied to, then reconstitute a better picture of reality. So hit the road, Jack—mainstream media Jack, I mean—and don’t you come back no more.